The £5bn E.ON UK pension scheme has moved to a dyn-amic asset allocation strategy and a focus on matching its funding requirements more closely.

Pension schemes will pull money out of bonds in 2010, after inflows to the asset class soared last year, Towers Watson has claimed.

Hermes Equity Ownership Services has won £16bn worth of new mandates in the past month, taking its assets under advice to over £60bn.

Demand for capital protection from across the defined contribution (DC) space is driving the development of a raft of new funds.

The fledgling longevity swap industry is under threat from soaring prices caused by "a sudden wall of demand", research shows.

Buyout providers are starting to consider dispensing with schemes' assets as soon as they acquire them, as a derisking measure.

The Bank of New York Mellon is to buy Insight Investment’s external fund management division from Lloyds Banking Group in a £235m deal.

Private equity is finally being seen in a more positive light by institutional investors, according to State Street.

Standard Life is to remediate certain customers of its Sterling Pension Fund, following its announcement that the value of the fund had dropped by 5%.